The AP reported today about plug-in hybrid cars, that dramatically improve mileage–and the car companies are not yet interested. “Toyota and other car companies say they are worried about the cost, convenience and safety of plug-in hybrids ? and note that consumers haven’t embraced all-electric cars because of the inconvenience […]
Reading Sheryl Hunter’s ‘Sounds Local’ column in the Recorder’s Arts and Entertainment magazine and came across a story about a band called The Kennedys. At one time Pete Kennedy was a member of Nanci Griffith’s touring band, and Maura his wife was in a band called the Delta Rays; they […]
My meeting with the selectboard in Deerfield went well. All three members expressed enthusiasm for our nascent farmer’s market plan. But it took forever to get to my turn, and that gave me a chance to watch the town’s finance committee in somulent action. God, how long these committees take […]
Jim Schinneller did not request to run a photo of the back of his head with his death notice in Sunday’s paper. Jim, a retired University of Wisconsin art professor, died at home Sept. 9 at age 81. It was an aneurysm. He went fast. The Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee’s […]
Patrick O’Connor of the Recorder published an article about an exciting plan we are hatching for downtown South Deerfield. The story also ran in the Daily Hampshire Gazette this morning. SOUTH DEERFIELD – A local businessman wants to bring a farmers market to town. ”I want to celebrate the fact […]
Today we’re introducing something new on the GoNOMAD home page. I’ve hired Joshu, a local webmaster, to help me introduce feeds on our front page. So that each of our eight blogs that are linked there will show the titles of most recent posts. That way our front page is […]
The Guardian had a story about rejection in China.“The surgical team claims the operation was a success. After 10 days, tests revealed the organ had a rich blood supply and the man was able to urinate normally. He had a transplanted penis.In 2001, surgeons were forced to amputate the world’s […]
Carl Hiaasen is not only a novelist, he’s a columnist for the Miami Herald. This controversial column about reporters being fired for writing for Radio & TV Marti ran today. “Over the last five years, while staff reporter Pablo Alfonso wrote columns and covered Cuba for El Nuevo Herald, he […]
I picked up a copy of the Princeton newspaper called US1, and found a story about a woman who is making a huge impact in her native Ghana by opening a new factory to produce a product for the US. Emelia Etse, known as Nana, grew up in Africa and […]
Cindy, my father Nat and I went into Princeton today. It was a shining, clear September day, and people were out in force. We passed a children’s book author’s show in front of the library. Under a tent were dozens of writers with their books displayed in front, and crowds […]
Janis Turk writes with eloquence and empathy about her beloved New Orleans in a new story on GoNOMAD.com. As she says, ‘attention must be paid,” and this piece really says it well. “It was once said of James Dean that he had an “insufficient hopefulness” — a phrase that often […]
On TV tonight was the story about Sony vs. JVC. It was “Modern Marvels,” and this episode was about the technology of the 1980s. They had Steve Wozniak, who put 10 million bucks into the US festival, which was a rock show with a sideshow of geeky stuff to gawk […]